Historically, cross-modal plasticity following early blindness has been largely studied in the
context of visual deprivation. However, more recently, there has been a shift in focus towards …

The process of complex cognition, which includes language processing, is dynamic in
nature and involves various network modes or cognitive modes. This dynamic process can …

Reading entails transforming visual symbols to sound and meaning. This process depends
on specialized circuitry in the visual cortex, the visual word form area (VWFA). Recent …

Utilizing a millimeter-scale fMRI technique and individual-based analysis, Zhan and
colleagues drew a new cortical map of the visual word form area (VWFA) and examined how …

Summary Although the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) in left temporal cortex is considered
the pre-eminent region in visual word processing, other regions are also implicated. We …

Face processing dominates the right hemisphere. This lateralization can be affected by co-
lateralization within the same system and influence between different systems, such as …

Most of us effortlessly describe visual objects, whether seen or remembered. Yet, around 4%
of people report congenital aphantasia: they struggle to visualize objects despite being able …

The brain networks for the first (L1) and second (L2) languages are dynamically formed in
the bilingual brain. This study delves into the neural mechanisms associated with …

Learning to read places a strong challenge on the visual system. Years of expertise lead to a
remarkable capacity to separate highly similar letters and encode their relative positions …

The functional nature of the visual word form area (VWFA), a region in left ventrotemporal
cortex (VTC), remains debated after over two decades of investigation. Here we use …